Processes of life
Subtitle: essays in the philosophy of biology
By: John Dupré
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780199691982
Subjects: Biology; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: [Pt.] I. Science. The miracle of monism; title: What's the fuss about social constructivism?; title: The inseparability of science and values; title: [pt.] II. Biology. The constituents of life 1 : species, microbes, and genes; title: The constituents of life 2 : organisms and systems; title: Understanding contemporary genomics; title: The polygenomic organism; title: It is not possible to reduce biological explanations to explanations in chemistry and/or physics; title: Postgenomic Darwinism; title: [pt.] III. Microbes. Size doesn't matter : towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology / with Maureen A. O'Malley; title: Metagenomics and biological ontology / with Maureen A. O'Malley; title: Varieties of living things : life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism / with Maureen O'Malley; title: Emerging sciences and new conceptions of disease : or, beyond the monogenomic differentiated cell lineage; title: [pt.] IV. Humans. Against maladaptationism : or, what's wrong with evolutionary psychology; title: What genes are, and why there are no 'genes for race'; title: Causality and human nature in the social sciences.